Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by smoyer on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @07:01AM (#16323846)

Since a large part of my work involved building networks of pre-DOCSIS cable modems at the time, I can tell you that the first Windows to support TCP/IP was Windows 3.11 (Windows for WorkGroups). This was carried into Windows 95 and by Windows 98 there was even Internet Explorer.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by dfox on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:12PM (#16326028)

But in windows 3.11 the TCP stack was not part of the installation or even on the installation media, it had to be installed separately together with win32s. In Windows 95 IIRC everything you needed for TCP/IP was on the installation media.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by zwieback on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @11:26AM (#16325514)

...and it had preemptively multitasking 32 bit drivers, we built a Mac (AppleTalk) server product on top of that with pretty good performance. 3.11 was a huge step forward.

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